OneSearch is the Libraries' Search Engine. It can help you discover books, ebooks, and schoalrly articles that Google cannot provide access to. You can improve your search results with specific combinations and variations of keywords.
First, some general rules:
You can start with a simple search like "Anime," here are the first 5 results:
Interesting and more specific topics, and combinations of academic disciplines start to appear if you scroll deeper. Here are some interesting books you might miss if you don't load more of the results:
The examples above focus mainly on Books / Ebooks. Try swapping the Source Type filter to "Journal Articles." Scholarly articles from journals offer interesting and nuanced perspectives on narrowly focused topics.
★ Notice that once you start to do more specific searches, you will start seeing more journal articles.
"Anime" is too broad a topic for doing a research paper. Think about what you would like to focus on, what are you passionate about in addition to anime?
A simple search like "anime gender" will provide new and interesting results. Even without reading the materials, the search results will provide you with lots of concepts, ideas, and vocabulary to better explore your topic. Below are some examples:
You can use Zotero. It's free software that works with your browser to make tracking your sources and citing them later much easier. Check out the Libraries guide on using Zotero.
▼